Like Lady Tremaine, Cruella De Vil doesnt have the trappings of authority to hound people with, and cant dog them with the black spot or any other form of curse or bad magic. I was going to try and run through this entire entry with canine metaphors and puns, but its bloody exhausting. No, Cruella makes it to number five on this list by virtue of personality alone, given that shes been stealing Dalmatian puppies from people the length and breadth of the country in order to drown them, skin them, and make their pelts into a coat. There are very few Disney Villains as grotesquely manic as Cruella De Vil. Her rage face, in particular, is a thing of deranged Cubist beauty, all bad angles and lunatic eyes. Puppy murderers are one thing, but when the adult Dalmatians rescue the puppies from her home and begin the long journey home, Cruella pursues them, relentlessly hunting them down, eyes bulging as her old Hollywood facade (she was initally based on Tallulah Bankhead) is stripped from her to reveal the insane cartoon skeleton beneath.
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